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<p>Hello snapcrafters!</p>
<p>We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.5 of
snapcraft: <a rel="nofollow"
href="https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.5">https:/<wbr>/launchpad.<wbr>net/snapcraft/<wbr>+milestone/<wbr>2.5</a>.<br>
This release includes many improvements and features such as:</p>
<p>- A kernel (with cross compilation support) and kbuild plugin<br>
- Experimental support for kernel snaps (this is a moving
target).<br>
- Initial support for better iterations with a better start
tracker for parts.<br>
- Support for downloading snaps.</p>
<p>We have also improved our testing, updated documentation and
resolved the<br>
unicode errors seen on some envionments.</p>
<p>To consume the latest snapcraft release on Xenial Xerus
(16.04), we suggest you install the snapcraft package from the
Ubuntu Archives:</p>
<p> sudo apt update<br>
sudo apt install snapcraft</p>
<p>If you don't want to consume the examples from the source
branch you can also install the examples package:</p>
<p> sudo apt install snapcraft-examples</p>
<p>After installing this you can find them in /usr/share/<wbr>doc/snapcraft-<wbr>examples/<wbr>examples.</p>
<p>To get the source for this release check it out at <a
rel="nofollow"
href="https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.5"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https:/">https:/</a><wbr>/github.<wbr>com/ubuntu-<wbr>core/snapcraft/<wbr>releases/<wbr>tag/2.5</a></p>
<p>A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and
ideas on snapcraft is snappy-app-devel mailing list or directly
in the #snappy channel on irc.freenode.net.</p>
<p>To file bugs, please go to <a rel="nofollow"
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+filebug">https:/<wbr>/bugs.launchpad<wbr>.net/snapcraft/<wbr>+filebug</a>.</p>
<p>Happy snapcrafting,<br>
- Sergio and the team</p>
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